I consider these 4 counties to be Metro Atlanta. The
Atlanta core counties that support MARTA operations are DeKalb and Fulton. Cobb and Gwinnett have not been interested in
MARTA trains enough to sign up for the extra 2 cent sales tax hike. The next grouping of counties like Cherokee
210,529, Clayton 273,718 signed up for MARTA buses, Forsyth 168,060, are exurbs
that are still partially agricultural.
The other counties claimed to be in the Atlanta Regional Commission are
clearly agricultural.
Agricultural, rural Georgia includes 30 counties with
populations under 10,000. Another 37 counties have populations between 10,000
and 20,000. Yet another 28 counties have
populations between 20,000 and 30,000. Another 10 counties have between 40,000
and 50,000. That’s 105 counties with populations under 60,000.
There are 15 other counties with populations over
100,000. That leaves 35 counties with populations between 60,000 and 100,000.
Georgia’s total population is around 10 million and
should continue to grow. Our growth, however, is a mixed bag of good and bad
news.
The good news is that: We have good weather and ample
rainfall and many states don’t have either. Corporate headquarters are moving
out of high tax states and appear to like Atlanta. If we ever get our national economy back and
can attract manufacturing again, Atlanta has proven it can handle providing the
workforce. Many of us moved here for the
electronics boom of the 1980s. The best news is that the Georgia economy can
stand on its own.
The bad news is that: We haven’t built any additional
reservoirs to allow for more growth, but we need them to deal with our next
drought period. We still haven’t added
to our highway and road systems to allow any growth. We lost most of our
manufacturing and design to off-shoring and retrenchment back to headquarters locations
and end-of-design cycles. Texas got all the growth and California retained its
dominance.
The disturbing news is that: UN Agenda 21 identifies
Atlanta as a “mega-city”. Also, Georgia receives $21 billion in federal dollars
to match its $21 billion in state revenue each year and the federal government
is broke. So how long could that last ? We
have a lot of government jobs in Atlanta and we should brace ourselves for a
downturn.
Our best bet is to push productivity for everything we
do. In Georgia it’s primarily
agriculture. But we should make sure our
energy costs are low and the regulations we allow are limited. We need to be a
net-exporter of goods.
|
State
|
County
|
Precincts
|
Population
|
|
Georgia
|
Appling
|
19
|
18038
|
|
Atkinson
|
6
|
8181
|
|
|
Bacon
|
7
|
10442
|
|
|
Baker
|
8
|
3805
|
|
|
Baldwin
|
16
|
46716
|
|
|
Banks
|
15
|
16760
|
|
|
Barrow
|
18
|
70073
|
|
|
Bartow
|
19
|
94913
|
|
|
Ben Hill
|
7
|
17635
|
|
|
Berrien
|
11
|
17058
|
|
|
Bibb
|
44
|
155216
|
|
|
Bleckley
|
3
|
12683
|
|
|
Brantley
|
11
|
15511
|
|
|
Brooks
|
11
|
16425
|
|
|
Bryan
|
12
|
31173
|
|
|
Bulloch
|
18
|
67761
|
|
|
Burke
|
17
|
22732
|
|
|
Butts
|
7
|
24423
|
|
|
Calhoun
|
7
|
6271
|
|
|
Camden
|
16
|
47641
|
|
|
Candler
|
4
|
10580
|
|
|
Carroll
|
33
|
113688
|
|
|
Catoosa
|
14
|
62825
|
|
|
Charlton
|
11
|
10848
|
|
|
Chatham
|
92
|
251120
|
|
|
Chattahoochee
|
3
|
13754
|
|
|
Chattooga
|
15
|
26801
|
|
|
Cherokee
|
46
|
210529
|
|
|
Clarke
|
26
|
114737
|
|
|
Clay
|
7
|
3231
|
|
|
Clayton
|
60
|
273718
|
|
|
Clinch
|
7
|
7060
|
|
|
Cobb
|
188
|
698158
|
|
|
Coffee
|
8
|
40527
|
|
|
Colquitt
|
21
|
45279
|
|
|
Columbia
|
47
|
110627
|
|
|
Cook
|
10
|
16608
|
|
|
Coweta
|
30
|
122924
|
|
|
Crawford
|
8
|
12510
|
|
|
Crisp
|
8
|
22162
|
|
|
Dade
|
9
|
16142
|
|
|
Dawson
|
10
|
22006
|
|
|
Decatur
|
16
|
28823
|
|
|
DeKalb
|
196
|
739956
|
|
|
Dodge
|
18
|
20116
|
|
|
Dooly
|
9
|
11548
|
|
|
Dougherty
|
30
|
95754
|
|
|
Douglas
|
27
|
127932
|
|
|
Early
|
13
|
11713
|
|
|
Echols
|
3
|
4063
|
|
|
Effingham
|
23
|
52060
|
|
|
Elbert
|
13
|
20494
|
|
|
Emanuel
|
14
|
22825
|
|
|
Evans
|
12
|
11646
|
|
|
Fannin
|
14
|
22618
|
|
|
Fayette
|
38
|
106465
|
|
|
Floyd
|
27
|
95980
|
|
|
Forsyth
|
34
|
168060
|
|
|
Franklin
|
15
|
21824
|
|
|
Fulton
|
344
|
1014932
|
|
|
Gilmer
|
15
|
28537
|
|
|
Glascock
|
6
|
2796
|
|
|
Glynn
|
22
|
75884
|
|
|
Gordon
|
15
|
52800
|
|
|
Grady
|
15
|
25115
|
|
|
Greene
|
10
|
15635
|
|
|
Gwinnett
|
165
|
789499
|
|
|
Habersham
|
16
|
43056
|
|
|
Hall
|
41
|
184814
|
|
|
Hancock
|
9
|
9440
|
|
|
Haralson
|
13
|
28979
|
|
|
Harris
|
14
|
29447
|
|
|
Hart
|
9
|
24278
|
|
|
Heard
|
11
|
11476
|
|
|
Henry
|
40
|
191502
|
|
|
Houston
|
26
|
133161
|
|
|
Irwin
|
12
|
10231
|
|
|
Jackson
|
18
|
61620
|
|
|
Jasper
|
9
|
13842
|
|
|
Jeff Davis
|
11
|
13486
|
|
|
Jefferson
|
10
|
16443
|
|
|
Jenkins
|
7
|
8547
|
|
|
Johnson
|
9
|
9550
|
|
|
Jones
|
13
|
27542
|
|
|
Lamar
|
8
|
17000
|
|
|
Lanier
|
5
|
8277
|
|
|
Laurens
|
20
|
47848
|
|
|
Lee
|
12
|
33761
|
|
|
Liberty
|
15
|
58491
|
|
|
Lincoln
|
9
|
8074
|
|
|
Long
|
7
|
11452
|
|
|
Lowndes
|
35
|
104583
|
|
|
Lumpkin
|
17
|
27056
|
|
|
Macon
|
7
|
13520
|
|
|
Madison
|
14
|
28200
|
|
|
Marion
|
9
|
6964
|
|
|
McDuffie
|
12
|
21756
|
|
|
McIntosh
|
9
|
11455
|
|
|
Meriwether
|
16
|
22840
|
|
|
Miller
|
3
|
6185
|
|
|
Mitchell
|
13
|
24073
|
|
|
Monroe
|
16
|
25252
|
|
|
Montgomery
|
9
|
8930
|
|
|
Morgan
|
12
|
18491
|
|
|
Murray
|
9
|
40304
|
|
|
Muscogee
|
50
|
186984
|
|
|
Newton
|
24
|
98542
|
|
|
Oconee
|
15
|
32221
|
|
|
Oglethorpe
|
12
|
14106
|
|
|
Paulding
|
30
|
133135
|
|
|
Peach
|
9
|
26736
|
|
|
Pickens
|
14
|
31176
|
|
|
Pierce
|
10
|
18127
|
|
|
Pike
|
10
|
17569
|
|
|
Polk
|
13
|
42018
|
|
|
Pulaski
|
5
|
9787
|
|
|
Putnam
|
11
|
20385
|
|
|
Quitman
|
4
|
2703
|
|
|
Rabun
|
11
|
16514
|
|
|
Randolph
|
11
|
7161
|
|
|
Richmond
|
75
|
199486
|
|
|
Rockdale
|
20
|
83222
|
|
|
Schley
|
3
|
4255
|
|
|
Screven
|
14
|
15133
|
|
|
Seminole
|
7
|
9091
|
|
|
Spalding
|
23
|
63913
|
|
|
Stephens
|
10
|
25493
|
|
|
Stewart
|
7
|
4666
|
|
|
Sumter
|
13
|
32449
|
|
|
Talbot
|
10
|
6414
|
|
|
Taliaferro
|
4
|
1863
|
|
|
Tattnall
|
11
|
23469
|
|
|
Taylor
|
8
|
8766
|
|
|
Telfair
|
8
|
13355
|
|
|
Terrell
|
8
|
10293
|
|
|
Thomas
|
22
|
45778
|
|
|
Tift
|
14
|
42434
|
|
|
Toombs
|
16
|
28102
|
|
|
Towns
|
6
|
11042
|
|
|
Treutlen
|
8
|
7076
|
|
|
Troup
|
18
|
64233
|
|
|
Turner
|
5
|
9228
|
|
|
Twiggs
|
7
|
10257
|
|
|
Union
|
13
|
21351
|
|
|
Upson
|
12
|
27530
|
|
|
Walker
|
20
|
64799
|
|
|
Walton
|
21
|
85813
|
|
|
Ware
|
14
|
35879
|
|
|
Warren
|
8
|
5844
|
|
|
Washington
|
10
|
21006
|
|
|
Wayne
|
17
|
29509
|
|
|
Webster
|
6
|
2164
|
|
|
Wheeler
|
4
|
6877
|
|
|
White
|
13
|
25299
|
|
|
Whitfield
|
25
|
93835
|
|
|
Wilcox
|
8
|
8750
|
|
|
Wilkes
|
9
|
10282
|
|
|
Wilkinson
|
11
|
10026
|
|
|
Worth
|
18
|
21306
|
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